Monthly Archives: June 2014

While growing your own vegetables has been around for many centuries, it wasn’t until recent decades that it has become easy for even the most modern and suburban family to have their own gardens with produce producing plants in their backyards. Thanks to computers, and the advances they have brought with them, it’s become even easier to manage watering schedules, soil contents, sun exposure schedules, weather patterns and protection, and the general upkeep necessary for running your own home garden for both vegetables and fruits.

As many home gardeners know, the soil matters the most when growing specific types of plants. This is where computers can play a huge role in helping gardeners with their soil plot management. Using a simple table program or spreadsheet application, you can manage your plots more easily and remember exactly which ones have the right soil for tomatoes versus the ones with the best strawberry growing soil. Computers can play a much bigger role than just being your labeling system though, since with the newest advances in gardening technology you can actually use a computer system to manage the watering schedule. You can specify each plot to have its own watering times, how lengthy the watering schedule will be, and how much water should be pumped into each plot for the specific plant they have. Not only is this eco-friendly for the plants themselves, providing them with the nourishment they need in specific intervals, it’s also helpful to lessen the amount of water used each day by your garden.

Another great benefit of computer technologies managing home gardens, is the fact that you can use computers to actually help protect your plants from various conditions. Too much sun shining on your plants that only need a limited amount during the day to survive? Use a computer controlled canopy system to protect them from excessive sunlight. These canopy systems can also help protect your plants from weather patterns like rain, having pre-programmed systems that can move the canopy over your plants when needed based on weather patterns, or manually during a surprise down pour. Plants can withstand a lot of punishment from weather, without damaging them too severely, but any extra protection can go a long way towards protecting your gardens.